Iger is a survivor at this point.  He's been at Disney for what, nearly 30 years?  CEO for almost two decades?  Poor guy has tried to retire like 3 times and keeps getting pulled back in.  

Disney hotels were nearly always more expensive, because you could easily get to the parks. And park tickets were more expensive than other amusement parks. But you paid those two big expenses and that was the main difference in a Disney vacation. Sure, food and souvenirs and such. But you’re buying those on vacation…

It’s true. They could triple the price and people would still fill the parks. But pricing out people from visiting the parks can also have the effect of lowering interest in Disney overall. I have one friend who (before this) realized he probably wouldn’t be able to afford taking his kids to Disney, so he avoided…

“First came the departure of longtime host Tom Bergeron”

My prediction was right. They “Sabrina’d” this fucking thing and of course it’s going to be fucking terrible.

I always loved the hypocrisy of Disney here.  Cry about a “dont say gay” bill while expanding Disney+ services to several middle eastern countries where being gay is literally illegal.  and I’m sure someone will make excuses for this corporation.

I always thought that Disney should have immediately sued DeSantis after he said he was going to dissolve the Reedy Creek Improvement District, because DeSantis pretty much said he was doing it in response to Disney’s stance on Don’t Say Gay.  Sounds like a blatant violation of the First Amendment to me, the…

“he decided nickel and diming people to death at the parks was the way to go”

I went to DW in October (gotta love Food & Wine LOL) before they raised prices *the next week*, but seeing that they had done away with the free system for getting in lines for rides was especially irritating (especially under the guise of “we want to limit the number of visitors post-pandemic,” very rich from the…

I don’t know that the Board of Directors cared about that as long as the customers kept showing up, which they did. As Chapek keeps saying, demand remains high despite the grousing over Lightning Lane and Individual Ride fees. Besides, the parks are only one aspect of Disney.

How smart can a business guy be if he doesn’t know that having people constantly run up against $15 here and $25 there is eventually going to piss them off

Yep. The nickel-and-diming was the reason my fiancee and I decided not to go back to DW after our first trip. Of course going there is expensive, but the entire point is that it’s just a little bit of escapism. I don’t want to be constantly forking over cash for little things when I can just get it out of the way…

the other thing about the pandemic is it trained people your big movies are gonna be on disney+ after 5 weeks...don’t think iger can put that cat back in the bag.

I assume Iger is even more brand-conscious than Chapek was and therefore extremely unlikely to do this, but it would be fantastic if Iger did decide to fuck with DeShithead as payback for fucking with Disney just to swing his dick around and show who’s boss in Florida, especially as DS starts his low-key run for…

when Chapek said the quiet part out loud about “we know we have a great product so we’re going to charge more for it” I audibly groaned, and not just because I am a Disney slave LOL, but you don’t say that shit out loud as the CEO of a company with such a strong family-associated brand, even if you have to lie about…

Mrs Hubbard works for the Mouse, and EVERYONE she’s talked to so far today is ecstatic about Iger being back.

The guy might have guided them through a pandemic, but as soon as they started to emerge, he decided nickel and diming people to death at the parks was the way to go. How smart can a business guy be if he doesn’t know that having people constantly run up against $15 here and $25 there is eventually going to piss them…

full 20-episode s4 for The Owl House, pls.

Chapek must have fucked up real bad for this to happen, like really bad. The Disney Earning Calls are going to be real interesting when they come out